ancientness
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Bounding around the stage shirtless with a disconcerting lope that suggests something’s off with his hip, he simultaneously owns his ancientness and defies it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
The idea was to completely transform the monadnock—to appropriate some of its ancientness, to secure a permanent place in honored memory for a nation that had lasted for fewer than five years.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2020
The trumpets and the ancientness were proof of our survival; and the king’s young daughter would rule the peace.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
Upon its face were stamped countless wrinkles and its blackness seemed less that of pigmentation than the weathering of unbelievable years, the very stain of ancientness.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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